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Events

January 2 - New York City U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen rules that former Beatle John Lennon and his lawyers can have access to Department of Immigration files pertaining to his deportation case.
January 5 - The Wiz, a new version of the classic The Wizard of Oz story, opens at Broadway 's Majestic Theater in New York City .
January 6 - Approximately 1000 Led Zeppelin fans cause an estimated $30,000 in damage to the lobby of the Boston Garden. The fans had been waiting for tickets to go on sale for Led Zeppelin's February 4 concert. The fans reportedly broke chairs and doors and caused other damage to the building. Boston Mayor Kevin White cancels the upcoming show.
The Alice Cooper stage show for Welcome to My Nightmare becomes the largest stage spectacle of the decade.
January 8 - Three Led Zeppelin concerts at Madison Square Garden sell out in a record four hours.
January 12 - "The Warner Brothers Music Show" begins a nine city, 18 show tour of Europe. The tour included Warner Brothers acts Little Feat, Tower of Power, the Doobie Brothers, Bonaroo, Montrose, and Graham Central Station.
February 21 - John Lennon releases his Rock 'n' Roll LP, featuring John singing his favorite early rock songs from the 50's. To promote the album he conducts a telephone interview with 20 rock radio stations simultaneously.
March 2 - Los Angeles Police make a routine traffic stop that turns out to be Paul McCartney and his wife Linda. Linda McCartney is arrested for having six to eight ounces of marijuana in her pocketbook.
March 22 - In the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm , Sweden , the Dutch group Teach-In win with the song "Ding-A-Dong".
March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London .
Welcome to My Nightmare, Alice Cooper's first solo album is released.
April 3 - Steve Miller is arrested and charged with setting fire to the clothes and personal effects of a friend, Benita DiOrio, and resisting arrest. DiOrio drops the charges the following day.
April 4 - Minnie Riperton scores a #1 hit single with "Lovin' You".
April 18 - Alice Cooper's first television special, Welcome to My Nightmare: The Making of a Record Album airs.
April 24 - Peter Ham, founder of the group Badfinger, is found hanged in his London garage. His death is ruled a suicide.
April 28 - Tom Snyder interviews John Lennon on the Tomorrow Show.
May 1 - The Rolling Stones announce their upcoming North American tour by performing Brown Sugar from a flatbed truck on Fifth Avenue in New York City . The occasion was guitarist Ronnie Wood's debut with the band.
May 10 - Stevie Wonder performs before 125,000 people at the Washington Monument as part of Human Kindness Day festivities.
June 1 - The Rolling Stones open their North American Tour in Baton Rouge, Louisiana .
August 9 - Melbourne-based group The Bee Gees begin their mid-70s international comeback when "Jive Talkin'" reaches #1 and goes platinum with sales over 1 million.
August 9 - Dmitri Shostakovich, the last of the great Soviet composers, dies.
August 9 - Renato Carosone's comeback concert after 15-year retirement.
September 15 - Pink Floyd releases their album Wish You Were Here and is a huge hit.
October 30 - Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour begins
November - The Ramones release their debut single, "Blitzkrieg Bop".
November 6 - The Sex Pistols play their first concert at St. Martin's School of Art in London .
November 21 - Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" goes to number one. (5 weeks 1975 + 4 weeks 1976)
December 25 - Iron Maiden forms

Also in 1975

John Rutter becomes Director of Music at Clare College, Cambridge
Billy Davis, Jr. and Marilyn McCoo leave the 5th Dimension and start solo careers
Peter Gabriel leaves British progressive rock group Genesis.
Camel's classic album, Music Inspired by The Snow Goose, is released.
The Goodies had five top twenty singles (in the UK) becoming, according to Bill Oddie, "the first, the only and the most successful comedy rockers".
Ramones sign to Sire Records

Bands formed

Bands disbanded

Brinsley Schwarz
Faces
Faust (reform in 1990)
The Guess Who (reform in 1977)
Hatfield and the North
Humble Pie (reform in 1979, 1989 and 2001)
If
Jo Jo Gunne (reform in 2005)
McGuinness Flint
Neu! (reform in 1985)
Ocean
Raspberries
Stealer's Wheel (reform in 2008)
Wizzard

Albums released

ABBA - ABBA
Adventures in Paradise - Minnie Riperton
Afro-Filipino - Joe Bataan
Alive! - Kiss
America's Choice - Hot Tuna
All Around My Hat - Steeleye Span
Another Green World - Brian Eno
Another Year - Leo Sayer
Armageddon - Armageddon
Atlantic Crossing - Rod Stewart
Bandolier - Budgie
The Basement Tapes - Bob Dylan & The Band
The Beau Brummels - The Beau Brummels
Beautiful Loser - Bob Seger
The Best of Carly Simon - Carly Simon
The Best of Top of the Pops '75 - Top of the Poppers
The Best Years of Our Lives - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Between the Lines - Janis Ian
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Blow by Blow - Jeff Beck
Blues for Allah - Grateful Dead
Bongo Fury - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention with Captain Beefheart
Born to Be with You - Dion DiMucci + Produced by Phil Spector
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Bright Size Life - Pat Metheny
Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John
Captured Angel - Dan Fogelberg
The Car Over the Lake Album - Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Caress of Steel - Rush
Chicago VIII - Chicago
Chocolate City - Parliament
Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry
Come Taste the Band - Deep Purple
Commoner's Crown - Steeleye Span
Crisis? What Crisis? - Supertramp
Das schönste im Leben - Die Flippers
Deluxe - Harmonia
Desperate Straights - Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
Diamonds & Rust - Joan Baez
The Dictators Go Girl Crazy! - The Dictators
Down by the Jetty - Dr. Feelgood
The Dragon is Dancing - Jimmie Spheeris
Dreadlocks Dread - Big Youth
Dreamboat Annie - Heart (in Canada; released in U.S. in 1976)
Dressed to Kill - Kiss
E.C. Was Here - Eric Clapton
Ella and Oscar - Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson
Equinox - Styx
An Evening With John Denver - John Denver
Extra Texture - George Harrison
Face the Music - Electric Light Orchestra
Fandango! - ZZ Top
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
Fly by Night - Rush
Fool for the City - Foghat
Fox - Fox (debut)
Free Hand - Gentle Giant
Gorilla - James Taylor
Greatest Hits - ABBA
Greatest Hits - Nazareth
Hair of the Dog - Nazareth
Have You Never Been Mellow - Olivia Newton-John
Head On - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Head over Heels - Poco
Helen of Troy - John Cale
High Voltage - AC/DC
The Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell
Hokey Pokey - Richard and Linda Thompson
Horizon - The Carpenters
Horses - Patti Smith
Hotline - The J. Geils Band
Ian Hunter - Ian Hunter
In Praise of Learning - Henry Cow
In Trance - Scorpions
Initiation - Todd Rundgren
It's Only Love - Rita Coolidge
John Fogerty - John Fogerty
Journey to Love - Stanley Clarke
Katy Lied - Steely Dan
The Köln Concert - Keith Jarrett
Landed - Can
The Last Record Album - Little Feat
Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne
Let's Take It To The Stage - Funkadelic
Live! - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Lou Reed Live - Lou Reed
Love to Love You Baby - Donna Summer
Main Course - Bee Gees
Malpractice - Dr. Feelgood
Man-Child - Herbie Hancock
Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear
Masque - Kansas
Mel Tormé live at the Maisonette - Mel Tormé
Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed
Michael Bolotin - Michael Bolton
Minstrel in the Gallery - Jethro Tull
Montreux '75 - Ella Fitzgerald
Mother Focus - Focus
Mustard - Roy Wood
Neu! '75 - Neu!
Newborn - James Gang
A Night at the Opera - Queen
Nighthawks at the Diner - Tom Waits
Now - The Dubliners
Numbers - Cat Stevens
Nuthin' Fancy - Lynyrd Skynyrd
One of These Nights - Eagles
One Size Fits All - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield
The Original Soundtrack - 10cc
Outlaws - The Outlaws
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Pieces of the Sky - Emmylou Harris
Playing Possum - Carly Simon
Pour Down Like Silver - Richard and Linda Thompson
Pre-Creedence - The Golliwogs
Prisoner in Disguise - Linda Ronstadt
Procol's Ninth - Procol Harum
Promised Land - Elvis Presley
Radio-Activity - Kraftwerk
Red Headed Stranger - Willie Nelson
Red Octopus - Jefferson Starship
Return to Fantasy - Uriah Heep
Rimmel - Francesco de Gregori
Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - Rainbow
Rock 'n' Roll - John Lennon
Rock of the Westies - Elton John
Ronnie Drew - Ronnie Drew (solo debut)
Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance - Ronnie Lane and Slim Chance
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Gil Scott-Heron
Rudy's Rock: The Sax That Changed the World - Rudy Pompilli and The Comets
Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard - Robert Wyatt
Sabotage - Black Sabbath
Searchin' for a Rainbow - The Marshall Tucker Band
Shaved Fish - John Lennon
Siren - Roxy Music
Slade in Flame - Slade
Slow Dazzle - John Cale
Song for America - Kansas
Stampede - The Doobie Brothers
Stand Back - April Wine
Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon
Straight Shooter - Bad Company
Strung Up - Sweet
The Sun Collection - Elvis Presley (in the UK, released in the US in 1976 as The Sun Sessions)
Sweet Deceiver - Kevin Ayers
The Sweet Singles Album - The Sweet
Tails of Illusion - Fox
Tea Break Over, Back on Your 'Eads - IF
There's One in Every Crowd - Eric Clapton
T.N.T. - AC/DC
Today - Elvis Presley
Tonight's the Night - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith
Tryin' to Get the Feeling - Barry Manilow
The Tubes - The Tubes
Two Sides of the Moon - Keith Moon
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back - Patrick Sky
USA - King Crimson
Velvet Donkey - Ivor Cutler
Venus and Mars - Paul McCartney & Wings
Warrior on the Edge of Time - Hawkwind
Waves - Jade Warrior
Welcome to My Nightmare - Alice Cooper
The Who by Numbers - The Who
Who's to Bless and Who's to Blame - Kris Kristofferson
Wind on the Water - Crosby & Nash
Windsong - John Denver
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Yesterdays - Yes
Young Americans - David Bowie
Zuma - Neil Young and Crazy Horse

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positionsin the charts of 1975.

#	Artist	Title	Year	Chart Entries
1	The Sweet	Fox on the Run	1975	Australia 1 of 1975, Germany 1 - Mar 1975, Australia 1 for 6 weeks Mar 1976, UK 2 - Mar 1975, Canada 2 - Nov 1975, Holland 2 - Apr 1975, Norway 2 - Apr 1975, South Africa 2 of 1975, Austria 3 - May 1975, Switzerland 3 - May 1975, France 4 - May 1975, US BB 5 - Nov 1975, Sweden (alt) 10 - Nov 1975, Germany 24 of the 1970s, RYM 24 of 1975, US CashBox 63 of 1976, Scrobulate 64 of glam rock, OzNet 535
2	ABBA	SOS	1975	France 1 - Sep 1975, Germany 1 - Jan 1976, Australia 1 for 1 weeks Aug 1976, Holland 2 - Jun 1975, Austria 2 - Sep 1975, Norway 2 - Oct 1975, Switzerland 3 - Aug 1975, UK 6 - Sep 1975, Italy 7 of 1976, South Africa 8 of 1975, US BB 15 - Oct 1975, US BB 15 of 1975, RYM 15 of 1975, Canada 16 - Oct 1975, Australia 16 of 1976, POP 21 of 1975, Germany 36 of the 1970s, 71 in 2FM list, Acclaimed 1175
3	George Baker Selection	Paloma Blanca	1975	Holland 1 - Mar 1975, Sweden (alt) 1 - Nov 1975, Austria 1 - Jul 1975, Switzerland 1 - Jun 1975, Norway 1 - Sep 1975, Germany 1 - May 1975, Germany 4 of the 1970s, Canada 5 - Jan 1976, South Africa 6 of 1975, UK 10 - Sep 1975, Australia 11 of 1975, US BB 26 - Jan 1976, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1975, Italy 44 of 1975
4	10cc	I'm Not in Love	1975	UK 1 - May 1975, France 1 - Jun 1975, Éire 1 - Jul 1975, US BB 2 - Jun 1975, Canada 2 - Jun 1975, Record World 3 - 1975, Holland 5 - Jun 1975, Norway 6 - Aug 1975, RYM 7 of 1975, Switzerland 8 - Aug 1975, Germany 9 - Aug 1975, Scrobulate 12 of 70s, US CashBox 24 of 1975, Europe 25 of the 1970s, Poland 37 - Mar 1995, Italy 96 of 1975, Belgium 176 of all time, Acclaimed 421

5	KC & the Sunshine Band	That's the Way	1975	US BB 1 - Nov 1975, Record World 1 - 1975, Canada 1 - Nov 1975, Holland 1 - Oct 1975, Sweden (alt) 3 - Nov 1975, POP 3 of 1975, UK 4 - Aug 1975, US BB 4 of 1975, Norway 5 - Nov 1975, Germany 25 - Nov 1975, RYM 44 of 1975, Scrobulate 44 of disco, US CashBox 49 of 1975, Italy 67 of 1976, OzNet 110, RIAA 303, Acclaimed 1119

Chronological table of U.S. and UK Number One Hit singles

U.S. Number One Singles and Artist (Weeks at Number One)	UK Number One Singles and Artist (Weeks at Number One)
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" - Elton John (2) "Mandy" - Barry Manilow (1) "Please Mr. Postman" - The Carpenters (1) "Laughter in the Rain" - Neil Sedaka (1) "Fire" - Ohio Players (1) "You're No Good" - Linda Ronstadt (1) "Pick Up the Pieces" - Average White Band (1) "Best of My Love" - Eagles (1) "Have You Never Been Mellow" - Olivia Newton-John (1) "Black Water" - The Doobie Brothers (1) "My Eyes Adored You" - Frankie Valli (1) "Lady Marmalade" - Labelle (1) "Lovin' You" - Minnie Riperton (1) "Philadelphia Freedom" - Elton John (2) " Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song" - B. J. Thomas (1) "He Don't Love You - Tony Orlando and Dawn (3) "Shining Star" - Earth, Wind & Fire (1) "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" - Freddy Fender (1) "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" - John Denver (1) "Sister Golden Hair" - America (1) "Love Will Keep Us Together" - Captain & Tennille (4) "Listen to What the Man Said" - Paul McCartney & Wings (1) "The Hustle" - Van McCoy (1) "One of These Nights" - Eagles (1) "Jive Talkin'" - Bee Gees (2) "Fallin' in Love" - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds (1) "Get Down Tonight" - KC and the Sunshine Band (1) "Rhinestone Cowboy" - Glen Campbell (2) "Fame" - David Bowie (2) "I'm Sorry" - John Denver (1) "Bad Blood" - Neil Sedaka (3) "Island Girl" - Elton John (3) "That's the Way - KC and the Sunshine Band (2) "Fly, Robin, Fly" - Silver Convention (3) "Let's Do It Again"- The Staple Singers (1)	"Lonely This Christmas" - Mud (2 weeks 1974 + 2 weeks 1975) "Down Down" - Status Quo (1) "Ms Grace" - The Tymes (1) "January" - Pilot (3) "Make Me Smile " - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel (2) "If" - Telly Savalas (2) "Bye, Bye, Baby " - Bay City Rollers (6) "Oh Boy" - Mud (2) "Stand by Your Man" - Tammy Wynette (3) "Whispering Grass" - Windsor Davies & Don Estelle (3) "I'm Not in Love" - 10cc (2) "Tears on My Pillow " - Johnny Nash (1) "Give a Little Love" - Bay City Rollers (3) "Barbados" - Typically Tropical (1) "Can't Give You Anything " - The Stylistics (3) "Sailing" - Rod Stewart (4) "Hold Me Close" - David Essex (3) "I Only Have Eyes for You" - Art Garfunkel (2) "Space Oddity" - David Bowie (2) "D.I.V.O.R.C.E." - Billy Connolly (1) "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen (5 weeks 1975 + 4 weeks 1976)

note: best sellers of the year are bold

Other significant singles

"#9 Dream" - John Lennon
"Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady" - Helen Reddy
"All By Myself" - Eric Carmen
"All My Friends Are Getting Married" - Skyhooks
"Amie" - Pure Prairie League
"At Seventeen" - Janis Ian
"Autobahn" - Kraftwerk
"Baby Please Don't Go" - AC/DC
"Back in the Night" - Dr. Feelgood
"Bad Luck" - Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
"The Ballroom Blitz" - Sweet
"Black Friday" - Steely Dan
"Black Superman Muhammed Ali" - Johnny Wakelin
"Blue Guitar" - Justin Hayward and John Lodge
"Boogie on Reggae Woman" - Stevie Wonder
"Born to Run" - Bruce Springsteen
"The Boys Are Back in Town" - Thin Lizzy
"Calypso" - John Denver
"Can I Sit Next to You Girl" - AC/DC
"Can't Get It Out of My Head" - Electric Light Orchestra
"Can't Stop Myself from Loving You" - William Shakespeare
"The Carpet Crawlers" - Genesis
"Cavalry" - Daryl Braithwaite
"Chevy Van" - Sammy Johns
"Convoy" - C. W. McCall
"Could It Be Magic" - Barry Manilow
"Curiosity Killed the Cat" - Little River Band
"Cut the Cake" - Average White Band
"D.I.V.O.R.C.E." - Billy Connolly
"Daisy Jane" - America
"Dance With Me" - Orleans
"Department of Youth" - Alice Cooper
"Ding-A-Dong" - Teach-In
"Don't Call Us, We'll Call You" - Sugarloaf
"Dreamer" - Supertramp
"Dynomite, Part 1" - Bazuka
"Ego Is Not a Dirty Word" - Skyhooks
"Eighteen With a Bullet" - Pete Wingfield
"Emma" - Hot Chocolate
"Evil Woman" - Electric Light Orchestra
"Express" - B. T. Express
"Feel Like Makin' Love" - Bad Company
"Feelings" - Morris Albert
"Fight the Power " - The Isley Brothers
"Fly Away" - John Denver
"Fox on the Run" - Sweet
"Freedom" - Sherbet
"Funky Gibbon" - The Goodies
"Funky Moped" - Jasper Carrott
"Get Dancin'" - Disco-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes
"Golden Years" - David Bowie
"Good Lovin' Gone Bad" - Bad Company
"Have a Cigar" - Pink Floyd
"Hey You" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
"High Voltage" - AC/DC
"Hijack" - Herbie Mann
"Hold Back the Night" - The Trammps
"Hold On To Love" - Peter Skellern
"Horror Movie" - Skyhooks
"How Does It Feel" - Slade
"How Long?" - Ace
"How Long " - Pointer Sisters
"I Am Love" - The Jackson 5
"I Believe In Father Christmas" - Greg Lake
"I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" - ABBA
"I Love Music" - The O'Jays
"I Only Have Eyes For You" - Art Garfunkel
"I Write the Songs" - Barry Manilow
"If You Think You Know How To Love Me" - Smokie
"I'm Not In Love" - 10cc
"In Dulci Jubilo/On Horseback" - Mike Oldfield
"It's a Long Way to the Top" - AC/DC
"It's a Miracle" - Barry Manilow
"It's Been So Long" - George McCrae
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" - Eric Clapton
"Kometenmelodie 2" - Kraftwerk
"Lady" - Styx
"The Last Farewell" - Roger Whittaker
"Let the Music Play" - Barry White
"Life... Is For Living" - Sherbet
"Listen To What The Man Said" - Paul McCartney & Wings
"Lonely People" - America
"Long Tall Glasses" - Leo Sayer
"Love Hurts" - Jim Capaldi
"Love Hurts" - Nazareth
"L-O-V-E (Love)" - Al Green
"Love Is the Drug" - Roxy Music
"Love Me, Love My Dog" - Peter Shelley
"Love Rollercoaster" - The Ohio Players
"Love to Love You Baby" - Donna Summer
"Love Won't Let Me Wait" - Major Harris
"Low Rider" - War
"Lyin' Eyes" - Eagles
"Magic" - Pilot
"Mamma Mia" - ABBA
"Man on the Silver Mountain" - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
"Matter of Time" - Sherbet
"Midnight Blue" - Melissa Manchester
"Million Dollar Riff" - Skyhooks
"Miracles" - Jefferson Starship
"Mr. Jaws" - Dickie Goodman
"Mr. Raffles (Man It Was Mean)" - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
"My Little Town" - Simon & Garfunkel
"Never Can Say Goodbye" - Gloria Gaynor
"The Newcastle Song" - Bob Hudson
"Nightingale" - Carole King
"Nights on Broadway" - Bee Gees
"No No Song" - Ringo Starr
"No Woman No Cry" - Bob Marley & The Wailers
"Now I'm Here" - Queen
"Old Days" - Chicago
"Once Bitten Twice Shy" - Ian Hunter
"Once You Get Started" - Rufus
"Only Women Bleed" - Alice Cooper
"Only Yesterday" - The Carpenters
"Our Day Will Come" - Frankie Valli
"Out on the Floor" - Dobie Gray
"Paloma Blanca" - George Baker Selection
"Please Mr. Please" - Olivia Newton-John
"Real Man" - Todd Rundgren
"Remember What I Told You to Forget" - Tavares
"Right Back Where We Started From" - Maxine Nightingale
"Rock and Roll All Nite" - KISS
"Rockin' All Over the World" - John Fogerty
"Rockin' Chair" - Gwen McCrae
"Rocky" - Austin Roberts
"Roll on Down the Highway" - Bachman-Turner Overdrive
"Roll Over Lay Down" - Status Quo
"Run Joey Run" - David Geddes
"Saturday Night" - Bay City Rollers
"Saturday Night Special" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Scotch on the Rocks" - Band of the Black Watch
"Send in the Clowns" - Judy Collins
"Shame, Shame, Shame" - Shirley & Company
"Shaving Cream" - Benny Bell
"She Does It Right" - Dr. Feelgood
"Sing a Song" - Earth, Wind & Fire
"Sky High" - Jigsaw
"Slow Ride" - Foghat
"The Snake" - Al Wilson
"Solitaire" - The Carpenters
"Someone Saved My Life Tonight" - Elton John
"SOS" - ABBA
"Soul Stripper" - AC/DC
"Spirit in the Night" - Manfred Mann's Earth Band
"Squeeze Box" - The Who
"Stand by Me" - John Lennon
"Strange Magic" - Electric Light Orchestra
"Summer Love" - Sherbet
"Summertime City" - Mike Batt with the New Edition
"Super Natural Thing" - Ben E. King
"Swearin' To God" - Frankie Valli
"Sweet Emotion" - Aerosmith
"Sweet Surrender" - John Denver
"Sweet Thing" - Rufus
"Tangled Up in Blue" - Bob Dylan
"That's the Way " - KC and the Sunshine Band
"Theme from Mahogany " - Diana Ross
"There Goes Another Love Song" - The Outlaws
"There Goes My First Love" - The Drifters
"They Just Can't Stop It " - The Spinners
"Third Rate Romance" - Amazing Rhythm Aces
"This Will Be " - Natalie Cole
"Too Much Rock 'N' Roll" - Rabbit!
"Una Paloma Blanca" - Jonathan King
"Up in a Puff of Smoke" - Polly Brown
"Venus and Mars/Rockshow" - Paul McCartney & Wings
"Walk Away From Love" - David Ruffin
"Walk This Way" - Aerosmith
"Walking in Rhythm" - The Blackbyrds
"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" - Freddy Fender
"The Way I Want to Touch You" - Captain & Tennille
"The Way We Were" - Gladys Knight & the Pips
"Welcome to the Machine" - Pink Floyd
"What a Diff'rence a Day Makes" - Esther Phillips
"What Am I Gonna Do With You?" - Barry White
"(What's the Word?) Johannesburg" - Gil Scott-Heron
"When An Old Cricketer Leaves The Crease" - Roy Harper
"When Will I Be Loved" - Linda Ronstadt
"Who Loves You" - The Four Seasons
"Why Can't We Be Friends" - War
"Wildfire" - Michael Murphy
"W*O*L*D" - Harry Chapin
"You Are So Beautiful" - Joe Cocker
"You Sexy Thing" - Hot Chocolate
"Young Americans" - David Bowie
"You're My Best Friend" - Queen

Published popular music

"And All That Jazz" w. Fred Ebb m. John Kander. Introduced by Chita Rivera in the musical Chicago
"Anytime (I'll Be There)" w.m. Paul Anka
"At Seventeen" w.m. Janis Ian
"Calypso" w.m. John Denver
"I'm Not in Love" w.m. Graham Keith Gouldman & Eric Michael Stewart
"I'm Sorry" w.m. John Denver
"Love Will Keep Us Together" w.m. Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield
"Mamma Mia" w.m. Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson & Björn Ulvaeus
"Movin' On Up" w.m. Jeff Barry and Ja'Net DuBois, theme from the TV series The Jeffersons
"New York State of Mind" w.m. Billy Joel
"One" w. Edward Kleban m. Marvin Hamlisch
"Rockin' All Over the World" w.m. John C. Fogerty
"Wasted Days Wasted Nights" w.m. Freddy Fender & Wayne Duncan
"The Way I Want To Touch You" w.m. Toni Tennille
"What I Did For Love" w. Edward Kleban m. Marvin Hamlisch
"You" w.m. Tom Snow

Classical music

Samuel Adler - Symphony No. 5, We are the Echoes
Osvaldas Balakauskas - Sonata of the Mountains
Claude Bolling and Jean Pierre Rampal - Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano
Mario Davidovsky - Scenes from Shir ha-Shirim for soprano, two tenors, bass soli and chamber ensemble
Lorenzo Ferrero
- Ellipse II
- Siglied
Theo Loevendie - Concerto for Bass Clarinet and Orchestra, Incantations
Witold Lutosławski - Les Espaces du Sommeil
Karlheinz Stockhausen – Tierkreis
Alexander Vustin - The Word
Dmitri Shostakovich - Viola Sonata - his final work

Opera

John Rutter - Bang!

Musical theatre

Chicago - Broadway production
A Chorus Line (Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban) - Broadway production
A Little Night Music (Stephen Sondheim) - London production
Dance With Me - Broadway Production
The Wiz - Broadway production
Pacific Overtures - Broadway Production

Musical films

Births

January 2 - Doug Robb, Hoobastank
January 3 - Thomas Bangalter, Daft Punk
January 13 - Jason King, radio DJ
January 12 - Melanie Chisholm, Spice Girls
January 28 - Lee Latchford-Evans, Steps
February 1 - Big Boi, OutKast
February 4 - Natalie Imbruglia, singer
February 5 - Adam Carson, AFI
February 7 - Wes Borland, Limp Bizkit
February 17 - Wish Bone, rapper
February 20 - Brian Littrell, The Backstreet Boys
February 23 - Robert Lopez, composer and lyricist
March 10 - Jerry Horton, Papa Roach
March 17 - Justin Hawkins, The Darkness
March 25
- Melanie Blatt, All Saints
- Stacy Ferguson, Black Eyed Peas
April 10 - Chris Carrabba, Dashboard Confessional
April 26 - Jose Pasillas, Incubus
April 26 - Joey Jordison, Slipknot
May 3 - Maksim Mrvica, pianist
May 8 - Enrique Iglesias, singer
May 18 - Jack Johnson
May 25 - Lauryn Hill, The Fugees
May 27 - André 3000, OutKast
May 29 - Melanie Brown, Spice Girls
June 4 - Russell Brand, Actor/Comedian
June 8 - Emm Gryner, singer-songwriter
July 2 - Erik Ohlsson, Millencolin
July 6 - 50 Cent, rapper
July 9 - Jack White, The White Stripes
July 12 - Tracie Spencer, singer and actress
July 18 - Daron Malakian, System of a Down
July 25 - Håvard Ellefsen, Mortiis
August 7 - Gaahl, black metal vocalist
September 1 - Omar Rodríguez-López, At the drive-in, The Mars Volta
September 8 - Richard Hughes, Keane
September 9 - Michael Bublé, big band singer
September 11 - Brad Fischetti, LFO
September 16 - Shannon Noll, singer
September 17 - Constantine Maroulis, Pray for the Soul of Betty
September 22 - Mystikal, rapper
October 9 - Sean Ono Lennon, son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono
November 1 - Bo Bice, singer
November 5 - Lisa Scott-Lee, Steps
November 6 - Mike Herrera, MxPx
November 14
- Travis Barker, blink-182
- Faye Tozer, Steps
November 20
- Dierks Bentley, singer-songwriter
- Davey Havok, AFI
December 13 - Tom Delonge, blink-182
December 14 - Justin Furstenfeld, Blue October

Deaths

January 11 - Max Lorenz, Wagnerian tenor
January 26 - Toti Dal Monte, operatic soprano
February 4 - Louis Jordan, jazz musician
February 10 - Dave Alexander, bassist (The Stooges), 27 (pulmonary edema)
February 19 - Luigi Dallapiccola, composer
February 22 - Lionel Tertis, viola player
March 4 - Cornel Chiriac, Romanian record producer, broadcaster and jazz musician, 33 (murdered)
March 15 - Sandy Brown, jazz musician
March 27 - Sir Arthur Bliss, Master of the Queen's Musick
April 14 - Michael Flanders, lyricist, actor, humorist and singer (Flanders and Swann), 53 (intracranial berry aneurysm )
April 23 - Peter Ham, singer and songwriter (Badfinger), 27 (suicide)
May 18 - Leroy Anderson, U.S. composer and conductor
June 29 - Tim Buckley, singer-songwriter, 28 (drug overdose)
July 5 - Gilda dalla Rizza, operatic soprano
July 14 - Zutty Singleton, U.S. jazz drummer
July 19 – Lefty Frizzell, Country Music Hall of Fame singer, 47 (stroke)
August 9 - Dmitri Shostakovich, composer, 68 (heart attack)
September 5 - Bill Sprouse, Jr., Christian singer and songwriter, 26 (heart attack)
October 30 - John Scott Trotter, U.S. arranger and conductor
December 14 - Mongezi Feza, jazz trumpeter and flautist, 30 (pneumonia)
December 17
- Noble Sissle, U.S. bandleader and singer
- Hound Dog Taylor, blues musician
December 24
- Bernard Herrmann, composer
- Tilly Losch, dancer and actress
December 25 - Julio Cueva, trumpeter, bandleader and composer
date unknown - Patrick Kelly, Irish folk fiddler

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Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1975

Leeds International Piano Competition

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